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Jennifer: An Adoptee Investigator Turns to Herself
Episode 15
Jennifer Dyan Ghoston is a same-race domestic foster alum and adoptee in reunion with both sides of her biological family. After a 27-year career in …
1 year, 8 months ago
Kelly: A Late Discovery Adoptee Digs for the Truth
Episode 14
Kelly was born in 1970 and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Her parents divorced before she could remember and she had no contact with her dad. Second old…
1 year, 8 months ago
Liz: Migrating Toward Wholeness
Episode 13
Dr. Liz DeBetta, creator of Migrating Toward Wholeness© is an adoptee and independent scholar-artist-activist committed to changing systems and helpi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Michael: Beckett's Children: A Literary Memoir - Live Episode from Kansas City 9.7.24
Episode 12
Born at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village on Nov. 11, 1954, Michael was adopted five weeks later by John and Eleanor Coffey, a corrections…
1 year, 8 months ago
Lea: Late Reunion Brings Love and Connection
Episode 11
Lea is an adoptee born at the end of the Baby Scoop era, 1970. She was born and raised in the city where she currently lives with her family. She kn…
1 year, 8 months ago
Patti: The Girl With Three Birthdays
Episode 10
Patti Eddington is a newspaper and magazine journalist whose favorite job ever was interviewing famous authors who came through town on book tours. S…
1 year, 9 months ago
Kathleen: A Reunion Full of Surprises
Episode 9
Kathleen was born in 1968 in Northern California. Her birth mother relinquished her for adoption immediately upon birth, and Kathleen was then adopte…
1 year, 9 months ago
Gaynor: An Adoptee Finds Resilience
Episode 8
Gaynor was born in a mother-and-baby home and spent the first six weeks of life there before being adopted in the same town of birth. Despite a chall…
1 year, 9 months ago
Aje: Finding Her Voice and Facing Hard Truths
Episode 7
Adopted at birth, Ajé loved sharing her adoption story throughout her childhood. She always had a feeling that she had been wanted by her birth paren…
1 year, 9 months ago
Angela: An Early Reunion Led to Belonging
Episode 6
Angela was born in Nebraska in 1979 and adopted at 3 days old. She grew up in a family that came with many complexities and issues, and she struggled…
1 year, 10 months ago